Welcome to the Shitshow, part 851, Trump 2.0, Climate Collapse, Chapter 38. Regardless of who is in office, solidarity, mutual aid and community are what keep us safe. I’ve put together these daily prompts and opportunities for solidarity (i.e. folks doing work that you can support if
Nitrate Fires
I've been wanting to write all week, some analysis of the current situation, maybe something inspiring and helpful around organizing and orienting ourselves, but I've only really been able to do so on bluesky, thoughts in tiny bursts, with immediate feedback loops of endorphins and positivity.
Welcome to the Shitshow, Part 850, Trump 2.0, Climate Collapse, Chapter 37. Note: Solidarity, mutual aid and community are what keep us safe, regardless of who is in office. Still, I’ve compiled these daily prompts and opportunities for solidarity (i.e. folks doing work that you can support
As the fires began to get under control in LA, news media started reporting on arrests for looting, and in particular the presence of the military police "maintaining order" in the overwhelmingly non-white and poor Altadena. I wrote about the use of looting panic as a form of
She's Not There
There are moments when you feel the timeline jump. You are sitting there and there is a breach, a punch in the gut—breathless. Then the whole world reconfigures around something new that has jutted into this reality. These can be bad personal moments, shocks like an unexpected breakup, a
There’s a particular kind of emotional chaos that comes with living in the fire-prone west. Fire behavior can be erratic, unpredictable. There are no meteorologist predictions of when the firestorm will pass. Flames climb hillsides, winds send embers flying—sometimes for miles—and there’s no guarantee where they’
Our Sticker and Zine distro is officially live! We're starting with a small number of both, as a teaser of what we will do moving forward. We'll be updating the libraries regularly, as well as developing design, organization and accessibility as the libraries grow. But for
Even the horrors are mid
She's Not There
Logging onto twitter of instagram after the election involves confronting a series of reaction posts posing as political insight, which, in the typical memeified leftism/anarchism, usually functions through scolding, moralizing, or just simple “I told you so.” I don’t believe anyone who says they knew something would happen,
Podcasts
I got to talk to one of my favorite people to get into it with, Conner Habib.
fragments
knowing when to leave is to know when it's time for something to go to seed, to allow decomposing to begin and for regeneration to take hold.
She's Not There
I wrote this before Luigi Mangione shot the CEO of United Healthcare. Such an act, totally unpredictable but ripping open the seams of this world to instantiate possibility in the present, is a beautiful act—not historical, since it breaks with this world and cannot be contained by time. Why